cover image The Harvey Girls: The Women Who Civilized the West

The Harvey Girls: The Women Who Civilized the West

Juddi Morris. Walker & Company, $9.95 (104pp) ISBN 978-0-8027-7520-7

The 100,000 waitresses who staffed Fred Harvey's chain of restaurants from the 1880s through the 1950s are starched-uniformed pioneers in this laudatory history. Ages 10-up. (May)